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gally

[gal-ee] / ˈgæl i /


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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.

From Time Magazine Archive

The galley or gally is also the name of the ship's hearth or kitchen, being the place where the grates are put up and the victuals cooked.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

There are irregularities also in the auxiliary verbs gwîl, to do, and gally, to be able, but these have been already given in Chapter IX.

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner

P. Penilesse, in his Supplication to the Divell, says: "Some gally gascoynes or shipman's hose, like the Anabaptists," &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

Jack was handy in the cabin, and capital feller to carry soup from the gally, aft.

From Jack Tier by James Fenimore Cooper

All I'm gallied about is what the others'll think.

From Isle o' Dreams by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman

No mistake, Moore looked a bit gallied on it; an' he hum'd an' ha'd, an' threatened to brain Tregarvis if he laid a hand on the hide.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy

It was left in her bedroom, and we be fairly gallied out of our senses!'

From The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy

We've all been gallied at the dairy at what might ha' been a most terrible affliction since you and your Mis'ess—so to name her now—left us this a'ternoon.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

It gallied our friends effectually, sending them flying in different directions at the top of their speed.

From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen


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